Recursive Semantic Dissection as an Immunological Primitive

Why passive fact-checking fails against high-velocity memetic cascades, and how self-stabilizing conceptual antibodies preserve analytical sovereignty.

When a cognitive system encounters an adversarial memetic payload, the point of transmission is rarely the propositional truth-value of the claim. Rather, the payload exploits affective salience—provoking outrage, identity verification, or tribal reinforcement before analytical scrutiny can engage.

To resist this asymmetry, the human noosystem cannot rely on centralized debunking authorities. It requires distributed, active inoculation: portable heuristics that trigger recursive semantic dissection at the exact moment a phrase attempts to terminate thought.

Operationalizing the Metric for the Rubric

This brings us directly to the formulation of our diagnostic rubric. If an epistemic claim cannot state its own falsification conditions in closed-form language, its transmission coefficient must be discounted by an order of magnitude.